Re: [newbie] numbers lock in kde
Yeah, me too. That really sucks!, or rather is a minor but irritating annoyance. I have that same problem On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Michael Holt mewed: Hello all! I've got another question for ya! I've got 'numlock at boot' enabled on Mandrake 7, but when I start kde, I lose my numbers lock on my keypad. How do I get those numbers to stay on when I start an X session? Thanks, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My new linux web servers with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com
Re: [newbie] Disableing PNP IN BIOS
Matthew Loschmann wrote: What is PNP os and how do I get there. I am a NEWBIE, everybody starts somewhere. Depends on your BIOS (BasicInputOutputSystem). This is what ultimately controls your hardware. PNP is Plug 'n Play which is exactly that "plug it in and it's ready to go". This is really only true for Windos. When your computer boots, you'll probably see a logo for your BIOS manufacturer (Such as Award or American Megatrends) and maybe something that says "hit this key to enter setup". You only have about 2 seconds to do it, so be quick. Mine is del and my mom's Compaq is F10. Hope this helps. -Josh At 12:18 AM 3/9/00 +0100, you wrote: pnp os - - Original Message - From: Matthew Loschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 3:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Disableing PNP IN BIOS I now know how to enter bios even though there is no prompt but I could not find this PnP setting everbody is talking about. Where is it? Please share Matt
Re: [newbie] increasing the font size in Netscape?
Todd Guse wrote: You need to go into Netscape preferences. There should be an option on the top that says colors and fonts. I've a prob w/ that too. NO matter what type of font size/dynamic/userdefined, etc. I choose, Netscape changes it very little if anything. It seems to change fonts more so for mail than for browsing. And what's w/ the "increase/decrease fonts" section being disabled? Fonts seem fine for everything else BUT Netscape. Maybe v7.x has this fixed? -Josh -Original Message- From: Funk Soul Brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: [newbie] increasing the font size in Netscape? how do i increase thefont size in Netscape? I doesnt let me highlight it in the view menu??? thanks
[newbie] Linux rocks!
I have to to say I really like the idea of users helping each other. I think that while Linux has proven its worth, it will continue to evolve much faster than Windos, seeing as W98se is not noticably different from W95OEM w/ the "power pack", and it crashes just as much. And tech support for Windoze software can only give you generic solutions, like "run scandisk and defrag", "power off for 10 seconds", etc... W/ Linux, we're more or less learning together (some more than others), and it's all really simple once you play around a bit. Just my $.02... -Josh
Re: [newbie] Now I'm Impressed!
I wouldn't dare install W98 on my P133/64M, but under LM6.1 it runs very well. Netscape has not crashed my box (imagine that) even w/ 30+ Navigator/mail/composer windows open! I havn't had the time to get TOO brave w/ Linux (been using it for email mostly), but sometime I'll get my new kernel in place (for the heck of it really, just to do it, 2.2.13-7mdk seems to be doing fine as is). When people ask me about Linux I tell them it's a completely different animal from Windoze as far as installing software, but that once you get things in place, THEY STAY IN PLACE! There's no crazy computer trolls that come in and change my configuration around and fragment my HDD in the wee hours of the AM. Of course, I still use the W98se box to play Tomb Raider and to show my Mom how do what she needs to do. I really hope there's not the sort of rush for Win'00 as there was for '98. Folks that would just be sad. I don't think W2k is on the shelf around here yet, but I havn't looked either :~} CUZ I DON'T CARE! Just my $.02 on the subject... Later -Josh Necrotica wrote: I just have to share this with someone. Ya know, the more I learn about Linux Mandrake the more I love it!! Up until this weekend I ran a dual boot system of Windows 98SE and LM7. I'm an IT professional, and since I need to get certified in it, I decided to blow away my 98 partition and install 2000. What a mistake that was. First, I have to say, if Win2K is Microsoft's best attempt at a stable OS then they need to stop smoking crack. That is the WORST operating system I have ever used, couldn't use my CD burner, and it kept on randomly hanging on me. It truly is pathetic. Personal obervations aside, I do need to run a Microsoft operating system. So I killed 2000 and reinstalled 98 tonight. As suspected, it wrote over LILO and couldn't boot into Linux afterwards. Luckily I created a Linux boot disk, thinking that would easily solve the problem Nope. I learned while installing Linux the first time that there is a conflict between my video card and my HDD controller. Thus, without a special vga boot parameter I get a kernel panic saying it can't mount my root drive. Adding the parameter vga=0x0301 works flawlessly. Unfortunately this parameter does NOT work with the boot disk I created. When I try to use the vga parameter it tells me "valid vga options are ask, enhanced, or a decimal number." I converted 0x0301 to decimal - no go. Tried all sorts of options...still nothing worked. I was one step away from thinking that I would have to reinstall from scratch when I tossed in my CD and did an upgrade. Lo and behold, that upgrade process is the SMARTEST thing I have ever seen. It checked my existing rpm database, found that I had everything already installed, kept my entire configuration, allowed me to put LILO back on, and voila! I'm back in Linux 5 minutes later and I couldn't even tell that it did anything. Brilliance! Pure brilliance! From a technical standpoint thats very well thought out. Anyone feel brave enough to try the same thing with NT or 2000? Its nice to be /home again. -Necro
Re: [newbie] how to use a winmodem
Winmodems are junk. I wouldn't recommend using one in a Windows box either. ISP's don't like them, cuz evertime I've called tech support, they ask "now, is this a winmodem?", "no? good, now I can help you." And they're never called Winmodems on the box of that nice new system you just purchased, but "V90" and "K56flex". michael bjorck wrote: Hello Go to site Winmodems are not modems, maybe thet can help you. http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Micke On Tue, 29 February 2000, KokWay Heng wrote: Hello, Linux doesn't support WinModem will never support. Rgs, Way On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi all of the list, I am new in this list and I am from argentina, so sorry for my english. My question is the following: I have a winmodem (HFlex) and I know that it is impossible to use with linux. If somebody can tell me if exist any way to use it in linux or a place to download a driver please contact me. Thanks Emilio Correa TEL mensajes: 02932-4-21305 o 02932-4-23486 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- AltaVista Smart is Beautiful http://www.altavista.com Raging Bull? Sleeping Bear? Live stock quotes at AltaVista Live! http://money.altavista.com --
Re: [newbie] no make possible
Lance Borden wrote: Joerg Reinhardt wrote: Since I reinstalled (LM 6.5 on an PI-75mHz, 40M-Ram) the thing is flying (as good as scrap can), but there is no "make" command or compiler ( egc++, or something simmylar I searched for in /usr/bin, correct place to search for, wasn't it?) I obviously missed to install the compilers! In the main installation where you can choose, wich packets are supposed to be Installed, there is no packet called "compilers" in explict, so wich one I have to install, to be able, to download and compile files from the net? It's not such a bad idea to install nearly everything, and then uninstall packages as you don't use them. Joerg As I understand from the people on this list, Mdk 6.5 is the same as 6.1. My Mdk 6.1 uses the gcc compiler, which is called pgcc on the installation disk. So, look on your installation cd for the rpm packages called pgcc, pgcc-c+, pgcc... I believe installing these will get you the make command. Lance There is also a package called "make", so you may want to install that also. -Josh
Re: [newbie] FW: newest version of mandrake or redhat...
Paul Hendrick wrote: -Original Message- From: toie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 1:42 PM To: Newbie Subject: newest version of mandrake or redhat... can anyone tell me what version of either of these is going to support winmodems and usb ethernet cards...? thanks... Not sure about the ethernet card, but I'd say the next distro to use the 2.4 kernel, will support that kind of hard ware. As for Winmodems, I'm not sure if they'll ever be supported very well in either distro. You should get a hardware modem, just in case. I once read on the Manadrake site that: "Winmodems will never be supported". Yeah, and from what I understand, they're not particularly GREAT modems anyway. They are cheap, however, but that can "inexpesive" or "of little quality" or maybe a combonation of the two. Alot of computer manufacturers will say "V.90" and "56flex", etc., but when you buy a computer it won't say "It's got a Winmodem!" on the box. also can anyone give me a really general explination of the whole .tar.gz files...and the make this and make install that...i want to use some patches for things but i need to know more about the make this and that thing...thanks toie tar.gz is the file extension for a commpressed file (Like *.zip). When you unpack the file, and run configure, a script will check that you have all of the dependancies for that program. If you do, it'll create a makefile. When you run make, it will compile the package, and make an executable program file. Make install places the binary executable in somewhere like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. That why you have to be 'root' to run make install, as root is the user with write perrmissions to those parts of the drive. I think thats the general rule anyway :) HTH
Re: [newbie] Defragging
From what I understand the ext2 filesystem is less prone to "fragmenting" than FAT (Windows/DOS). There is, however a BETA defragmenting package on the L-M 6.1 install CD. Use w/ caution, cuz this has not had all of the kinks worked out and it's better to be safe than sorry. I personally have never used it, but am wondering if it could help boost disk performance/increase speed. (?) -Josh Anthony Huereca wrote: Is there any regular maintaince that needs to be done to a linux box like in Windows with defrag, scandisk, etc? I know that defragging in Windows can speed up a system quite a bit, and I had never heard of anything like defragging in Linux, which is why I was wondering if you even have to do it. And if so, how exactly would you do it? -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Press any key to continue and any other key to quit
Re: [newbie] Red Neck Linux
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote: I lifted below news release parody out of a Linux-oriented email newsletter I subscribe to called CONSOLE : http://console-newsletter.hypermart.net/subscribe.htm http://console-newsletter.hypermart.net/ Alan New Linux Distro: Red Neck Linux Red Neck Computers, Inc., of Chattafoocheeble, Alabama, starting shipping version 1.0 CD-ROMs of its new Red Neck Linux distribution yesterday. "We feel that RNL is a major step forward in bringing cheap, powerful, easy-to-use software to the millions of technophobes living in the South," Sandy Watkins, PR manager for Red Neck said in a press release. RNL features: * The X Winder System * DukesOfHazzard command line shell * Netscape 4 with preset bookmarks to such sites as The Big Show, How to Attract Your Cousins, Bubba's Farm Report, Branson.net, The Stag Beer Homepage, 101 Recipes for BBQ Sauce, Dukes of Hazzard Fan Club, and the Hee Haw Syndication TV Schedule. * Deer Hunter, Bass Fishing, and Civil War General games * Daisy Duke pin-up preset for root winder Guess it's a good thing that those of us from Alabama have a sense of humor. Funny I don't seem to be laughing. -- LIFE'S LAWS Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people is mentally ill. Check three friends. If they're OK, you're it. Oh, yeah, I'm in Atlanta, GA. While I feel that Alabama jokes are not in such horrible taste, and there's probably not so many Alabama-Linux users, this joke, however funny it may be, is a bit stereotypical, if not disrespectful. Funny none-the-less, however. L-M content: Just bumped up my RAM to 64MB's. Proccessor still at 133, graphics @ 2MB's. Playing around w/ different window mgrs. KDE still very user friendly. Gnome/Enlightenment a bit harder to figure out. STILL LOVIN' LINUX!!! -Josh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOKx3tJIc6oBNVYv1EQLnsACdEB832g77Roe41Ts46P0M47VSAhcAnAhb w1whal+DZ6y15B06RPJGF8Gm =5Yg1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[newbie] on the subj. of the kernel...
What is as86? I found it on the mandrake site, but not on my mandrake 6.1 CD's. What equivilent do I need to FINISH re-building my kernel? I can make mrproper, make menuconfig, make dep, and make clean, but when I try to make zImage, it goes thru all the usual stuff, and finally ends w/ these errors: ...as86: command not found, *** [bootsect.s] Error 127, and [zImage] error 2. Ultimately, I can't finish building a new kernel. Any ideas? Thanks! -Josh
Re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE
Since msgs are apparently being reposted (again)... Is make installed on your machine? How about ncurses-devel, glibc-devel, and binutils-rpm? Not sure, but you might also need bin86 and sh-utils, also. I didn't get menuconfig to work on the first few tries, but instead of getting frustrated and blaming Mandrake for what would be a HUGE oversight, I went to mandrakeuser.org and did some research. How can you say so DEFINITIVELY that "it is BROKEN, ie DEFECTIVE, ie NON-Functional", when many people have had little trouble? Just do some RESEARCH b4 you blame others. Vic wrote: Just to announce, Mandrake 6.1 has a bug, you cannot, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, there is NO make menuconfig in Mandrake 6.1, they screwed up, you install the kernel headers and the sources, and still will not make menuconfig or xconfig, it is BROKEN, ie DEFECTIVE, ie NON-Functional. It cannot be done. -- Linux Cat
Re: [newbie] Scanners
Harold Hartley wrote: I would never use "root" for a regular user setup and using the internet constantly as it could pose trouble for you if you continue... root is used to install and uninstall software and to do other changes on linux... I think you should use a regular user account on your linux to be running on the internet and stuff for good reason's as I'm sure others would agree with me... Oh, I agree, but if you insist on browsing/emailing as 'root`, at least change the identity under "mail and newsgroups" in Nutscrape preferences or similar in whatever email client you're using, so it won't make it SO obvious. Harold - root wrote: Try going to the SANE site, they have a comprehensive list. Fran -- From: Lance Borden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Scanners Date: 09 February 2000 14:38 I need to get a new scanner, one that will work with my Linux. Any of y'all have an HP 3200 up and running with Linux. It wasn't listed on the Sane site, but it's the right price and easily available for me. Or, any recommendations from someone using a scanner under $200? THANKS! Lance
Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
snip KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each That's damned odd. I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. Oh, that explains everything. P133/16MB RAM ^ ^ | | | `-- You intend to run a GUI with this?! Stick to the command prompt until | you've got at least 32. :-) `-- Ouch. That places your machine squarely in the "desktop calculator" bracket in the CPU pecking order. Try something with a bit more zip to it. 350MHz is probably a good starting place. Take your spending cash for the month, but 48 megs of simms with it, and blow the rest on the fastest AMD chip you can. Anyone have the dirt on the Evergreen AMD K6-2 upgrade? I'm running a P133 also, and have seen the 333-400mhz AMD upgrades for $100-200US w/ BIOS upgrade. And then there's SO MANY motherboards around, I'm having a difficult time choosing one. With all the graphics cards moving from PCI to AGP, and ISA being phased out, what should I do? Testimonials would be great! i.e: The best MB you've used and Linux compatibility. As much info as I can get b4 I buy. Thanks! -Josh
[newbie] certain services safe to disable...
For the common desktop, what services would be safe to disable? Currently, I'm only using my 'puter for email, StarOffice, etc... W/ out doing a reinstall (where you hit F1 for descriptionof each srvc)? linuxconf (L-M 6.1) does not tell me what each of the services do. I can tell my box is doing too much disk swapping, and is SLOW as a result. Just need to do a little "fine-tuning". Current config = 48mb, 1.6gb, P133. Till I have the $$ to UPGRADE, I'd like to milk my box for all it's worth ($1600 in `96) Thanks! -Josh
Re: [newbie] OT Starting LUG for mandrake
hugh wrote: I was thinking that maybe if enough people lived close enough to each other we could start ( Linux users groups ) It might be worth while and even fun. Any thoughts -- QOTD: I'm not a nerd -- I'm "socially challenged". I'm thinking that for this list, if a handful of people live in the same time zone, that would be amazing, but it seems we're scattered about the globe. My idea is this: I'm printing up a handful of flyers to post on various bulletin boards around campus announcing a LUG (all distros welcome) meeting in the Student Ctr at 12:30 on M's and W's. It would be cool to see how many people show up. I already know there's talk around campus about starting a LUG, but I don't know any of these people. This way, I can get most, not all Linux users together on campus. Later -Josh
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Mailling-list in German
I would really like to see it. Ein Deutsches List wird viel spaB machen. I could practice written German and learn more about Linux at the same time! -Josh Gael Duval wrote: Hello there, we have been asked several times for new Mandrake lists in German language. How many people here would be interested in such new lists? Thanx to answer me privately. Gaël Duval. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] DOOM
"David Odin (aka DindinX)" wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:29:12AM +0000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install', and get the msg "make: ***No rule to make target 'install'. stop" What rule do I need to make target install? This is not mentioned in the README's w/ lxDoom, but is maybe some syntax I need to learn for make? i'm entering all commands from the working directory (lxdoom-1.4.0) Though not an emergency, if I could get some clues as to what I need to do, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! Later. I guess you have to run the ./configure script before doing the 'make install'. This script will create the Makefile you're needing. Yeah, I did all that... I'll try again... Hey, it worked! Regards, DindinX -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] DOOM
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install', and get the msg "make: ***No rule to make target 'install'. stop" What rule do I need to make target install? This is not mentioned in the README's w/ lxDoom, but is maybe some syntax I need to learn for make? i'm entering all commands from the working directory (lxdoom-1.4.0) Though not an emergency, if I could get some clues as to what I need to do, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! have you tried "make config" FIRST What does the readme say about how to install? John I sent the INSTALL readme as another post just now, couldn't seem to cutpaste from Kedit to Netscape and I'm too lazy to type the whole thing. -Josh
[newbie] DOOM
Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install', and get the msg "make: ***No rule to make target 'install'. stop" What rule do I need to make target install? This is not mentioned in the README's w/ lxDoom, but is maybe some syntax I need to learn for make? i'm entering all commands from the working directory (lxdoom-1.4.0) Though not an emergency, if I could get some clues as to what I need to do, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! Later. -Josh
Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??
I think it all depends on how much extra support is compiled into your kernel that you're not using or maybe during install when you chose services you want started at boot time you chose alot you're not using either. Linux takes a little tweaking to get type of setup you want, but it's very flexible, and once you're happy w/ your performance, you can bet the farm nothing is going to change unless you change it or your HDD gets killed. You just have to do some reading, and mess around a little to get desired results. There has never been any intention to make Linux perform well for everybody straight out of the box. Viel Gluck! -Josh Hugh Semmler wrote: Well I cant speak for anybody else , But my computer runs at least twice as fast as win98. On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: i have mandrake 6.1 and i have win98se. i use win98se quite alot and i found that it is much faster then linux is that meant to be the case?? the kernel installed is 2.2.13.22mdk michael dolan -- "I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere."
Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??
Try "Xconfigurator" at the command prompt. After you choose your video card, monitor specs, etc., try choosing more than one resolution, then later, you can switch resolutions by hitting ctrl alt+. Use the (+) on the num pad. Mine is set at 1024x768 and 800x600, but whenever I switch to 800x600, I get a "virtual screen", which may be what you're describing. eg: if you move the mouse past the edge of your desktop, you can see the rest of it, but not all at once? I don't care for the virtual screen either. -Josh JAMIL HUSSAIN wrote: josh i installed linux on my machine, but the resolution is set incorrectly, i cant see all the screen, what caommand do i use to change the res. From: Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow?? Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:13:41 + I think it all depends on how much extra support is compiled into your kernel that you're not using or maybe during install when you chose services you want started at boot time you chose alot you're not using either. Linux takes a little tweaking to get type of setup you want, but it's very flexible, and once you're happy w/ your performance, you can bet the farm nothing is going to change unless you change it or your HDD gets killed. You just have to do some reading, and mess around a little to get desired results. There has never been any intention to make Linux perform well for everybody straight out of the box. Viel Gluck! -Josh Hugh Semmler wrote: Well I cant speak for anybody else , But my computer runs at least twice as fast as win98. On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: i have mandrake 6.1 and i have win98se. i use win98se quite alot and i found that it is much faster then linux is that meant to be the case?? the kernel installed is 2.2.13.22mdk michael dolan -- "I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere." __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??
Seth Gibson wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: desired results. There has never been any intention to make Linux perform well for everybody straight out of the box. Tho i think we are seeing that change more and more with Things like lizard and such. . .me personally, when i installed mdk the first time it worked great. . .of course alot of my hardware is so old, linux was probably very happy with my machine(:-D Yeah, me, too! If I did have W98 on my box, I'm sure I would see a real drag in performance. I have not built a new kernel yet due to time constraints, and the fact that L-M 6.1 has performed very nicely for me out of the box. I'm sure that when I do trim down the stock kernel that I could free up some memory. On that note, I started recompiling the kernel a couple of times, and each time it failed (I forget why) after choosing to save the new kernel, so in /usr/src there are "linux-2.2.13" and "linux-2.2.13.old" folders, and the 2 files generated by make menuconfig (one is .old) So should I delete these extra files and start again from the beginning? Thanks! -Josh
Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??
snip I started Josh recompiling the kernel a couple of times, and each time it Josh failed (I forget why) after choosing to save the new kernel, Josh so in /usr/src there are "linux-2.2.13" and Josh "linux-2.2.13.old" folders, and the 2 files generated by Josh make menuconfig (one is .old) So should I delete these extra Josh files and start again from the beginning? Thanks! -Josh What kernel are you running now (output of 'uname -r')? 2.2.13-7mdk -Josh snip
Re: [newbie] Linux + Mainstream
Seth Gibson wrote: Greets all! In real life i work at a Costco Warehouse, for those who dont know, its a warehouse store similar to Sam's Club. As i was walking the floor today i noticed that we started selling MacMillian(sp) Complete Linux 6.5. Right next to Win98 Upgd. How's that for mainstream? God grant Win98 boxes outnumbered Linux boxes by a factor greater than 2 to 1 but its a start eh? Oh, yeah, and Best Buy sells several distros for 1/2 what M$ Windows uprades are. Caldera, SuSe, Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware, etc... It's neat, b/c Widows takes up this huge chunk of the aisle, you have little or no choice as to which Windows you want, and right next door are 1/2 as many Linux distros, but w/ greater variety and flexibility... I always bump into people at the book or computer store under the Unix/Linux section and start talking about Linux. -Josh
[newbie] Hello?
Anybody left on the list? I start to wonder what's going on if I don't receive any mail for 3 days...
Re: [newbie] Instant Internet start?
After you do that, create a Kppp icon on your desktop to make it *really* easy to start. Right click-New-Application-Kppp. Under the "Execute" tab, just put "kppp". -Josh Alan Shoemaker wrote: Steveassuming you are in the KDE desktop, open the application starter (the gear with the K on it at the bottom left hand corner of the screen) and choose Internet and then choose Kppp (cascading menus). It'll need setting up the first time you run it (pretty much like dial-up networking on Windows, but without the wizard). ;o) Alan Steve Leseman wrote: Is there a way to instantly launch dial-up networking from an icon (like in Win98), rather than having to go through Netconfig and three windows each time? And how can I get the modem lights to display in the taskbar? Thanks!
[newbie] list moderation PLEASE (rant)
I'm sorry, I couldn't help but notice I receive too much junk mail off of this list. Since when does the year 2000 have *anything* to do w/ Linux? Let alone Mandrake... There are many other lists available for many other computer topics and millenium stuff I hearby suggest that we keep this list open for discussion only about Linux (specifically Mandrake). Axalon? Can you help us out here? I've been threatened off a list for sending mail even slightly OT, and you know what, I never sent anything OT again. Let's just agree that this a list for Linux-Mandrake newbies, and anything that doesn't pertain to Linux-Mandrake in any way shape or form is OFF TOPIC and punishable by 1)a warning and then 2)a booting. If people aren't going to show any consideration for a particular forum of discussion, then they have no place in the forum. Just my $.02. -Josh "I just want info on Linux, please."
[newbie] LUG's in the Atlanta, GA area?
I know there must be some Linux users in the area. Probably many, just spread a little thin. I'll be going back to school at Kennesaw State this week, maybe I can stir up some users on campus. Later... -Josh
[newbie] graphics card shopping....
I'm shopping around for a good card to run under L-M 6.1. Is it a bad idea for me to just look at what chipset the card uses and amount of ram? I'm looking at NVidia Riva TNT cards w/ 8-16mb's. Could I expect any of these various cards to be supported even if the drivers are only for Windoze? I'm not a big gamer, but I expect my sys performance would increase noticably upgrading from 2mb to 16mb. Also, what cards use the Trident chipset? I'm still looking I really like the one I've got, it's just a bit outdated. -Josh
Re: [newbie] Changing partitions
R_Yeo wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Kevin Sexton wrote: Is there a way in linux (short of reinstalling) to rearrange, or resize partitions in linux, I have on a 4 gig drive a hdb1--small primary windows partition (needed to keep windows happy -drive D: to windows), hdb5--/--- full!! hdb6--/home a swap partition and some free space. If I understand you correctly, you have only one drive but it is called hdb?? I thought the convention should be hda for the primary master. Anyway, I find Partition Magic (ver 4) very useful for partitioning. If you are only expanding partitions and adjusting them, Linux should be able to cope easily. However, if ,for example, you root is going to be changed to hdb6 or whatever, you should make a note of it and edit you lilo.conf accordingly after altering the partitions. Have a TESTED boot disk ready first before anything. I have done it twice already (constantly shrinking Windows partition) Kind of a way of not letting Windows know you're replacing it, or a way of smoothing your transition to Linux only? Just keep shrinking that Windows partition till it doesn't have any virtual memory left, and you finally have to just put it out of it's misery :-) -Josh and have not had much problems. HTH -- Ronald
Re: [newbie] Welcome to list newbie
James Mellema wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to the Cooker List. You just have been subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. or go to the web page and unsubscribe via the web interface. -- Mandrake Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does this mean that the entire newbie list is subscribed to cooker? -- -- James Mellema, CRNA MA --- Linux User #71650 I was wondering about that too... this is maybe the 3rd time I've gotten this msg If I'm on the cooker list, then people are gonna have some problems cuz I don't know crap. Of course I'll try not to expunge info I'm only partially familiar w/... Like type "startx" to start X, Winmodems don't work (read: DON'T WORK), and unless youre not willing to mess around a bit, no Linux distro gives you exactly what you want straight out of the box, but you're gonna learn alot about your sys that you didn't know (or did know but didn't think you had any control over it)... OK Just my 1-1/2% (if that...) Later -Josh
[newbie] What am I missing?
I went to the MUO site, and found out what I needed to get make to work. I've been running Bash, so all I needed was the kernel-headers-rpm, source, docs, binutils, ncurses-devel, and glibc-devel. Installed everything, but when I get to glibc-devel, it appears to install, but b4 it's done, I get the msg: ERROR: "execution of script failed". So when I look at the RPMs, it's there and it's installed, but is it installed completely? So, I logged out, logged back in, and as root, tried again to run "make menuconfig", but I still get the msg: "bash: make: command not found" I'll continue reading any of the README's in /usr/src/linux, but I think I'm almost there, I'm just missing something really simple. In "Running Linux", the 6 steps to building a Kernel are described as "quite painless", but I can't get past 1. Run make config (or menuconfig in my case). If someone could either tell me what I need to do or direct me to the proper documentation, i'd really appreciate it. Thanks! -Josh
Re: [newbie] (Update)What am I missing?
Des Wass wrote:
++ /12/99, Josh McCaffrey:
Josh McCaffrey wrote:
Okay, so I needed to install "make" (duh!) I also installed bin86
and sh-utils (just in case). Now bash knows what I'm asking for when
I type "make"... Thing is that I can only run "make config", and not
"menu" or "xconfig" as I'd like. I get the error "/bin/sh: gcc: command
not found" when I try menuconfig. What RPM should I install to let me
run make menuconfig? make config asks more ?'s than are listed on pages
213-217 of "Running Linux" 3rd ed. Guess it's back off to the
archives... Later.
-Josh
You might want to try installing the pgcc package from the CD.
That did the trick... Thanks Des! I'm just trying to trim down the kernel
cuz there's alot of stuff I won't be doing w/ my box any time soon and i'm
seeing if I can get back a little memory. This will be my first time
attempting this, but menuconfig makes this task much easier for a newbie that
doesn't understand alot of these options. I figure that if I trim the kernel
only to support things I'm gonna use soon, that my box might run a bit
faster. I mean, sh**, I don't really have any use for much of what Linux has
to offer, but it still hasn't crashed yet and that's reason enough for me to
be using it. Then I can sound cool talking about building my first kernel
;-) In time I'll be doing more w/ this brilliant system as I learn more
about it.
Seriously, menuconfig is s easy to understand and it has HELP for most
of the options. I can hardly wait to to finish the kernel, but now, I need
some sleep... Later.
-Josh
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Re: [newbie] Modem
Ganesh, Call the manufacturer for specific info, but I'm thinking"soft" is short for "software", meaning the modem may require software to work. This software is most likely for windoze. It's also a PCI modem. Have you searched the archives, yet? This problem is pretty routine, has been addressed many times, and is well documented. Okay, I'll say it It's probably a Winmodem, and will not, no matter how hard you try, work w/ Linux. It's designed only for Windoze :-( A decent ISA modem will cost you around $50-60, and needs no software to work. Good luck, but for future referance, if you do some researching (FAQ's/archives, etc...), most basic configuration problems have already been answered in many ways. It helps if you read this stuff b4 you install Linux :-) -Josh Ganesh Subramanian wrote: I installed linux 6.5 on my pc which contains windows 98. linux does not recognize my modem. My modem is conexant soft k56 PCI Modem. ( I am able to use it from windows 98) Any set up needs required to acheive this. Any pointers would be appreciated ? Thanks in advance ganesh _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] newbie horrors (was Kernel)
"Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: snip Josh, You at 22 seem a little like me at 50 - I have always liked putzing around with my 'puter since I started with a Comodore Vic 20 (boy was that a long time ago!). I think though that we most likely fit the discription geek-wannabe, since we have no formal education to qualify us as certified geeks. M2C, Ernie I don't know, I have been checking out the CSIS program at school. It covers ALOT that I don't know and am probably better off not knowing... not so sure I want a diploma that says"Certified Geek". HeHe Then I'd have to get a job in an OFFICE! It certainly looks like a decent program, though. -Josh
Re: [newbie] small note
Yeah, then you can UNINSTALL stuff as you decide you don't need it and need to free up some HD space. MickeyMutant wrote: I have noticed that many things work Much better if you do a Custom install and put in EVERYTHING! i know this takes up a lot of hd space but you will run into less trouble if as many rpm's as posiable are installed like the mandrakeupdate that is not installed on the workstation seting but is if you choose everthing.. Mickey
Re: [newbie] A question
correct, I had very few problems w/ w95 oem during my last few months (after 3 yrs of much headaches, tweaking reinstalling, patches, etc...). However w/ Linux, if something happens to go wrong, you can fix it. May take a little trouble, but once it's fixed, it's fixed (no problems so far). As far as I'm concerned, Linux isn't some GOD of OS, but yet a system unique to windows users that offers a platform that can be customized to one's needs w/o purchasing expensive software. For what you save in $$, you spend in time, but you also gain more knowledge of the inner workings of your OS. I'm just taking it slowly now, got video, got sound, got ISP connectivity, got SO installed, so I'll just make little steps, get some books, and maybe in a few months, I'll be better prepared to tackle Linux more in depth. And this list has been a lifesaver! To all willing to help out a poor newbie, Thanks! -Josh mshirley wrote: Perhaps we are overlooking the obvious here. A fresh install of W95/W98 with the patches needed doesn't crash quite as much as you would think. I have been running a fresh install of W95OSR2 for several days now without a crash or reboot. I have noticed that when a lot of shareware is installed, it crashes more frequently, which seems to backup the rumor I heard once that shareware programmers sometimes modify system files slightly to detect previous instances of installation. It seems like this would affect the OS sooner or later. On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Dan Ferris wrote: | I have a question. | | After spending my day at work fixing some problems with Windows it lead me to | think about this. | | Why is Linux more Stable than Windows??? | All I hear about is how great Linux is compared to Windows but none of my books | really explain WHY except that it is free. | | Linux is multi-user preemptive multi-tasking, multi-threading, and has memory | protection between applications. | | Windows is multi-user multi-tasking and multi-threading, and has memory | protection between applications. | | Linux never crashes. Windows crashes all the time. | | Now before you anwser. I want REAL anwsers. Not anwsers like "Well, Windows | sucks because Micorsoft is big and rich." | | Anwsers like "Windows sucks because applications don't check to see if they | should give up the CPU for another application."(JUST an example) are more | acceptable. | | I have run Linux for almost a year with no real problems at all. I have run | windows for several years with nothing but grief. | | Just curious thanks. | Dan
Re: [newbie] Modem Settings
Zoom, as far as I know, makes great modems (intern or xtern). w/ a mail in rebate, costs ~ $60-80 USD. If you do have to get a new modem (make sure you can't set jumpers in your present one), know what com/irq's you need and set the jumpers b4 install. I have a Zoom 2919 internal V.90/56flex, and once configured, operates fine... www.zoomtel.com Hope this helps. Happy Holiday's :-) -Josh "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Ryan Gardner wrote: I've used search and everything and looked all across my computer to configure my modem. As of now my computer doesn't know I have a modem. Where can I go to configure it? Thanks a lot. Ryan __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com Ryan, What type of modem do you have?? As a rule PCI modems, Winmodems, and HCF don't work. Nor do any that say "requires Windows xx.x " They are all M$ trash. Your best bet is an external (guaranteed to be a serial modem), or any modem that allows you to set a jumper to assign a com / IRQ. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] KDE screen help
It's 22 clicks from bottom back to the top, right? All I did was went into Kpackage and unistalled a bunch of the utilities I didn't want (like Tea Cooker). Isn't there a way to change the menu properties so that it can have "more-" at the bottom a menu that's too long to view in one pane? Disk Navigator has it, and so does Netscape, so what's the trick? Somewhere there's a config file w/ a couple of lines that can be changed slightly to enable this feature, right? Oh, yeah, I can switch resolutions now! Things is that I chose 1024x768 and 800x600, but if I run 800x600, it gives me that 'virtual desktop' I don't really care for. Xconfigurator didn't ask me if I wanted thisJust gave it to me. I think I know what it is. Later -Josh funboy wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but there is a slight problem... I am already _at_ 1024 X 780. sigh Even if I knew _how_ to go finer, I wouldn't do it... on a 15" monitor, it's already small enough (strangely enough my ctrl-alt-numpad+,- thingie doesn't change my display) grrr... there must be some way to access these menus... Any other suggestions? Awash in a sea of unknown shortcuts, ~phil Cyndi Dwayne Hillier wrote: Hi Phil, I did the same thing myself. Only way I could fix it was to change the resolution to at least 1024 x 780. Though that is drastic, but it did the trick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] First off, I just want to say that i installed my first LINUX system a few days ago, and apart from a few hangups, everything has been running great. I am very happy with the learning curve. Just sitting back and watching the emails has been a great catalyst for my own solutions. But there is one annoying little problem I still have and can't figure out how to fix Can you please tell me how to see the bottom (unviewable) portion of the KDE popup menus? My Utility menu is too large (vertically) to fit on screen, and, while it may be amusing for you all to contemplate, I have been forced to count and memorize how many arrow hits I made from the moment the focus went off-screen in order to access these apps. I'm sure the answer is quite obvious, but I just can't get it. thanks, ~phil
Re: [newbie] M$ Streaming Media - With what software would you playthis? M$ Media Player?
Sevatio Octavio wrote: How do you view M$ Streaming Media where the M$ Media Player is required? Are there such players for Linux? Seve Could be... I know you can play Quicktime formats. I think the viewer is called Aktion!. It starts automatically when you try to run a QT clip. Pretty neat, I clicked on a clip thinking I'd get a msg like "open with..." and I wouldn't know what to use, but it just did it automatically. And M$ advocates think (or so they say) there's no decent software for Linux. Well, so far we've got the basics covered, Office suites, Netscape, development tools, more than I know off the top of my head, and more coming. Later -Josh
[newbie] Increase/Decrease Font(Netscape)
May be slightly off topic, but does anyone else notice that when you go to View, that Increase/Decrease Font section is disabled in a Netscape window? Anyone know why this is? -Josh
Re: [newbie] dropped modem connections with Linux
I found that tweaking the init string is the simplest thing you can do to boost the k/sec w/ a modem. I'm using a Dualmode Zoom 2919 (56flex/V.90). If I leave the init @ ATZ, my modem works, but is not very fast, as this is a default setting that works w/ most modems. By changing this to ATS109=2 (or 1, I forget what I changed it to, V.90 or 56flex only), my speed is more predictable (usually b/t 45333 and 48000). The server I actually dial in to could be 30 miles away for all I know. Sometimes, the speed drops to 26400, so I just hangup and try again. Also, if I use email for a long time (reading from this list, etc..) I think my ISP drops me, I don't know, I have to call them cuz in 10 days I've gotten no response from them via email, just automated replies. Anyhoo...If by any chance you have the documentation that came w/ your modem, look for init strings specific to that model, or go to their website. -Josh Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: Hello, I'm having what would seem to be a rather strange problem. My modem almost always disconnects suddenly from my ISP after a few minutes online. The time varies -- sometimes 20 seconds sometimes 45 minutes. KPPP gives me the message "pppd died". Here's the strange part: using the same modem in Windows on the same machine calling the same ISP works fine. The modem is a USR Sportster 28.8 External. I do have debug for pppd and kppp enabled, and nothing abnormal shows up in the log(s). Linux thinks that the modem simply hangs up and sees no errors. Also, on the rare occasion when the connection in Linux lasts, the throughput is greatly slower than with Windows. I only average 1.3K down with Linux and the same setup with Windows get me an average of 2.2K. Then, too, I have the registry tweaked up in Windows to adjust the MTU, TTL, RWIN, MSS, and NDI Cachesize. BTW, is there any way to adjust these values in Linux? I already know how to do the MTU and MRU settings, but what about the others. (These two alone seem to make little if any difference). I've already contacted my ISP (who supports Linux) and he says my problem is likely phone line noise (I live out in the country). This is quite possible, but then why is Linux so much more picky about it? I have had occasional disconnects with Windows, but only a fraction of the number as with Linux. I am using this initialization string with Linux: ATZ. I do not have a string specified in Windows. Is there some remedy for this? Do I need a new modem? or do I give up and revert to Windows for my surfing and emailing? Thanks for any suggesions, Jeremy
[newbie] Returned mail...
Earlier, I sent a msg to [EMAIL PROTECTED] scolding them for not having anything L-M specific to add to the discussions, and my mail was returned, but the address is the same as the one sent to the list. Okay, maybe it's not my place to delegate, but it irks me when I'm reading thru 60+ e'mails and then these guys put in something not even related. (Mandatory) Linux content: A previous post mentioned tweaking the TTL, MSS, MTU, RWIN settings in the windoze registry... besides that, what files in Linux should I familiarize myself with to adjust other settings like MinTimeSlice, ComBoostTime, KeyBoostTime, TrapTimerPorts, Vcache, etc...? I'm really not sure what to do to get my L-M system optimized as it's not running as speedy as windows was b4 I trashed it. I was thinking since Linux wasn't such a resource hog, that I could have my 48mb/P133 sys running faster than windows. So far, it has been more stable, just not as fast. My swap is set at 96mb and is used only in small amounts. I think that somewhere, resources are going to things I'm rarely, if ever using. Any tips to bump up the speed of my system, i.e. , disabling services not used by a common desktop? Others? There has to be something I can do to minimally but noticibly increase my PC's speed (besides adding more RAM/HD and a new CPU, for now). Any help greatly appreciated -Josh
[newbie] cannot adjust video settings...
I've run Xconfigurator and xf86config several times, but thought my video is set OK now, I can't seem to change it. According to my monitor manual (Smile 1280x1024), I can run 800x600 @ 56, 60, and 72hz N-I; 1024x768 @ 87hz Interlaced, 60 and 70hz N-I; and 1280x1024 @ 87 I and 60 N-I, Hsync @ 30-69KHz, and Vsync @ 50-120HZ Video card default is 1024x768 @ 16bits. When I try anything other than "a monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60hz", Vsync @ 50-150, and I test X, my screen flickers and I can't see anything really, and I have to go back and set it to 800x600, monitor that can do 1280x1024, and 50-150 Vsync. Anyway, I think those are the settings I'm offered, but the point is that I can't seem to get the settings to be easily changeable w/ Xconfigurator, though it offers the option of specifying Hsync's, it does not give me an option for actually doing so... So, why is it so difficult to switch b/t resolution settings? 800x600 is OK, but I'd like to have the option of switching resolutions as needed. Xf86config isn't any easier to set acceptable settings, and besides, I'd like to be able to make changes "on the fly". -Josh
Re: [newbie] Office
Dreja Julag wrote: I have been hearing that there was an office suite coming out for Linux. When is this and where would I find it? If you got the boxed version of Mandrake 6.1, it's on one of the RPM CD's. If not, then maybe try stardivision.com (?) or maybe sunmicrosystems. You can probably download it, but it's a pretty big app, even w/ a 56k modem. Oh, yeah, it's called StarOffice :-) -Josh Thanks, Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Sher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Helios-New" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 7:13 AM Subject: [newbie] We need a StarOffice list! Dear friends: I feel that I am in a quandary. There is no mailing list for StarOffice, or rather there is one with 23 members on it, which I subscribed to. Never got a message from them except for my subscription confirmation. With millions of people using StarOffice, there really should be a mailing list, and the obvious sponsor ought to be Sun. The newsgroups (and I have subscribed to staroffice.com.support.starwriter and other SO newsgroups) are just not enough. Were it not for our list, I would have had to wait an eternity to get over that insurmountable "Save" problem I had last week. And, again, others are probably having problems, too. Just saw a message concerning SO installation a moment ago. I spent $50 on QUE's 1,500 page Using Linux. I always check there first before asking, and I have found many answers for other issues there. I do not want to irritate the other members of the list with questions about StarOffice. On the other hand, I am sure many members of our Mandrake list use StarOffice, too. What to do? I imagine that at this very moment hundreds of thousands of new StarOffice users are asking themselves this very same question: Where is the StarOffice mailing-list? In fact, there ought to be at least one for every component of SO. Right now I would settle for just one. Thanks for listening. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Problems configuring my modem
If you feel you've tried everything else, open your box, disconnect your modem (ground or earth yourself first), and set the jumpers to a COM that isn't occupied by your mouse and to any free IRQ except for 15 and (?). There should be a jumper to disable PnP, do this, and all should be well. Good luck. This worked for me. -Josh Moises Lopez wrote: Hi, I've been trying configuring my SupraExpress 33.6 PnP internal modem, but I can´'t configure at all. Any ideas? Thank you. Moises Lopez
[newbie] Window Maker is interesting...
W Maker is kinda cool. I like how I can mess w/ different desktop environments, and all my stuff is saved. So, once I figure out how to run an app, my stuff is there waiting for me. I'll probably mess w/ W Maker and Xfce a little more, but KDE, IMHO is best for newbies still learning their way around. -Josh
Re: [newbie] crash tests....
I found a good one! Didn't crash my box, just got *really* slow. While I was in WindowMaker, in an Xterm, I typed "start Kde". So, Kde starts, my KDE background and icons pop up, everything looks like Kde, but the icons from WM are still there, and the window boarders are WM, as well as the right click pop up menu. Strange. So I went to bed, and when I was fixing coffee this AM, I could here some disk activity. Hmmm... Took my screen saver 1-2 secs to respond. Apparently, my sys was running entirely on swap, of which only 23mb's was left, so it took sometimes several seconds to do anything. If I have 60ns EDO RAM, what would disk swapping be comparable to? Later -Josh Simon Norris wrote: From a Unix point of view, you can normally have 255 X sessions of whatever type open at the same time, so head for that if you want. It should be reasonably easy to write a short shell script to spawn an infinite number of windows, record the count somewhere, and when (if) it crashes, you can go back to the log and see how many windows were open when it crashed. A common one, again for Unix but should be transferrable to Linux, is to open many sessions using the 'top' command in each. Top displays a real time monitor of the top ten processes running, and can be an effective load testing tool, as it doesn't do anything to the system, it just watches. However, you may find you're chasing something that doesn't exist. If the reliability is anything like what I've seen so far, you will never see it crash, it will just get slower and slower, until it seems to stop. - Original Message ----- From: Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] crash tests I had to do it. After having been a Linux user for ~month, I had to do the CRASH TEST on my system. Opening multiple netscape windows should be an easy way to crash a system, right? Right now, I've opened 12 navigator windows, 1 composer window, messenger, Kpackage, Font manager, system information (memory),2 text editors, Mahjongg, CD player, 2 KFM's, and 2 Konsole's, Kppp, and of course, this window here :-) Question: What would be a tougher test? 27 windows seems like alot, but it doesn't seem to be doing too much. Maybe since most of these windows aren't really doing anything but waiting? My free swap is at 52.68/96.43MB's and I still have 1.4/48mb's of free RAM. We'll see what I can do to crash my box... Not that I want to crash my box, just have to see how far I can push it. I'm not blessed w/ a newer, post '97 system w/ a fat HD and tons of RAM w/ a 300+mhz CPU. Later... -Josh
[newbie] Desktopcfg
I ran desktopcfg as root and chose to set the system wide default as Xfce, but when I log in as user, Window Maker starts; if I log in as root, Xfce starts.
Re: [newbie] Liszt.com -- Correction
I think www.list.com or lists.com. I know when another mail list server was down, we had a back up list using one of these sites. If you can put up w/ a little advertising on all of the posted mails, it's not so bad. If it works, it works :) -Josh Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: www.liszt.com is just a list of mailing lists, not a place to start one. Which only goes to show that if anyone is interested in starting a StarOffice mailing list, then we'll have to look for someone who can direct us to information on how to do it. Anybody know anything about this. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] test
If you're using Netscape, try hitting the "Get Msg" button on the toolbar. Maybe your prefs aren't setup to automatically dl new msg's. Are you getting any mail at all? If you're not getting list mail, then this is probably no help. -Josh Pat Mellema wrote: Is this getting through I have tried 2 posts and have not had any response and they don't show up on the list. Pat Mellema __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
[newbie] BIOS tweaks
I'm no stranger to my 'puter's (AMD) BIOS setup, but there are a few parameters I'm not sure exactly what they do. Under Chipset Setup, Dram control, I've disabled Memory Hole, cuz I read somewhere Linux doesn't appreciate memory holes... There's read/write Leadoff... Read burst Timing...Write burst timing...Ras to Cas Delay...Ras precharge... I've got an idea as to what some of these settings do, just not sure what changing them would do for my system. Should I just not fool w/ them as long as my sys is running, or could changing these offer *any* +performance under Linux w/ a P133, 48MB's RAM? If it matters, I bought my 'puter in Fall '96, it's an A-OPEN AP5C/P and upon boot it says my BIOS date is OCTOBER, 1994. I did, however, get an updated motherboard driver (Jan., 1997). Don't know what this changed if anything. Thank you all! -Josh
[newbie] crash tests....
I had to do it. After having been a Linux user for ~month, I had to do the CRASH TEST on my system. Opening multiple netscape windows should be an easy way to crash a system, right? Right now, I've opened 12 navigator windows, 1 composer window, messenger, Kpackage, Font manager, system information (memory),2 text editors, Mahjongg, CD player, 2 KFM's, and 2 Konsole's, Kppp, and of course, this window here :-) Question: What would be a tougher test? 27 windows seems like alot, but it doesn't seem to be doing too much. Maybe since most of these windows aren't really doing anything but waiting? My free swap is at 52.68/96.43MB's and I still have 1.4/48mb's of free RAM. We'll see what I can do to crash my box... Not that I want to crash my box, just have to see how far I can push it. I'm not blessed w/ a newer, post '97 system w/ a fat HD and tons of RAM w/ a 300+mhz CPU. Later... -Josh
Re: [newbie] KDE desktop icon permissions
I *think* you can log on as root, go into Linuxconf, User accounts, user accounts, select the user you wish to edit, and add/subtract permisions available to that user. Linuxconf just asks me for the root pswd so I don't have to log out and then log back in as root. Same w/ Kpackage. Don't worry, I'm on my umpteenth install which I'll post about in a bit :-) -Josh hugahog wrote: Hi again, On a resent install of LM 6.1 I find I do not have permission to use most of the desktop icons such as linuxconf and rpm's. Yes, I created a user account during install and my root desktop is OK. I tried (as root) bringing up the /home/Larry desktop and changing permissions but did not solve the problem. Strangely, I am allowed to mount the cd-rom and floppy and configure autostart but not much else. So I suspect there is a file I need to configure as root? Any suggestions appreciated. :-) Larry
Re: [newbie] modems for Linux
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi, Can anybody send me a complete lists of current brands and models of modems for Linux? I have tempted to go ahead and buy from a vendor but I know the vendor will tell the wrong things about the modems that are supported by Linux. Can anybody help me? Hmmm, a complete list? My ZOOM 2919 dualmode works fine (contrary to Bynari's claim that it wasn't a supported device), but the plug n play feature I think was only for windoze. Just know which IRQ and COM port you need to use, set the jumpers (they're labled), put it in an empty slot, plug in your phone lines, open kppp, under the modem tab, set it for the corresponding port (COM1=ttys0, 2=1, etc.), enter your dial-up settings, click ok, click connect, and all should be well. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] aol
Yeah, they suck, and they're overpriced, but for some reason or another people think there's more to do on AOL. Call me crazy, but all I need is a number to dial in to, an e-mail box, a browser with which to view HTML documents, maybe some graphics and JAVA and I'm happy. Their software is stupid. The whole interface is for people that need the web served to them on a platter. I liked it when I cancelled my free trial and they called me twice to try to get me back, and so I asked very politely if I could get their terrific software to work on Linux. No. Why not? I just had a good time pestering this poor CSR. I hope I didn't ruin her day. It's not her fault AOL sux. However, I was polite, and maybe I planted the Linux seed in just one more person's head. -Josh Sean Armstrong wrote: AOL SUCKS! Nuff said. They don't have PPP access. Their service sucks. They are afraid of ppp because people wouldn't use THEIR proprietary software. AOL is nothing more than another WINDBLO$E of the internet. If you try to get any info from them , they'll send you a generic answer saying that they are aware of the problem and are working to correct it. In english this means, Use our software, or TUFF #$!*. If you don't believe me try writing their technical service about this problem. Sorry for the rant. SA Larry Coolidge wrote: AOL Has to run to dial-up. AOL 5.0 is PPP compatible, but the AOL software has to be running. It will only run under Windows, so Linux isn't going to work. From: "Ronald J. Yacketta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] aol Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 22:34:21 -0500 On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Yeah, get a real ISP ;) on the other hand (I never used AOl so I am going out on a limb here) does A-O-HELL offer dialup ppp? if so then you could possibly (not sure tho) use kppp If aol is my isp, is there anyway for me to get on the internet through linux? If so, how? I tried using wine, but that just crashes. Thanks jas __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- When GOD endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guaratee them.
[newbie] can only use modem as root
List, Today, I spent some more time trying to solve my problem(s), to no avail. Maybe I'm missing something, but that's the reason I subscribed to a newbie list. Apparently, many of you have had various config problems to varying degrees, so I can only hope that someone on this list has had a similar problem, specifically only being able to initiate a modem connection when logged on as "root". It's gotta be something simple, I know, but I'm not sure where to begin. Thank-you all. Please don't flame me for using Mindspring, as it has been a very fast and reliable connection. Josh Atlanta, GA
[newbie] ISP connection only works for ROOT?
List, After getting my modem to work under L-M 6.1 (which support told me wouldn't work), I've discovered I can't find Kppp anymore (Murphy's Law?). So, I'm using KWvDial in lieu. There seems to be no way to change the AT commands, though I changed them under Linuxconf, but when KWv dials up my ISP it uses an init string other than the one I want. The wierdest thing is that my modem is only detected when I'm logged in as root. Also, the FIND utility can't find KPPP, only KPPPLoad (whatever that does). Anyhoo, the installation went fairly well, and I've gotten everything setup except for the scanner which I havn't fooled w/ yet. The modem took the most time, and I ended up disabling plug n play and setting it up manually (gotta move my box somewhere more accessible). This is a learning experience, right? Like I spent the last 3 yrs fooling w/ windoze only to drop it like a hot potato. Good thing this is my system, and everything I wiped out was mine, right? Boy, this is fun ;) -Josh, ATL, GA 2wk old Linux Newbie
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack
Benjamin wrote: Dear friends: I just purchased the Mandrake 6.1 PowerPack this afternoon (from LinuxMall). I won't be getting it till Wednesday. Just curious: Mandrake says on their web page that the PowerPack includes the installation CD, 1,800 rpms and a third CD with commercial applications (plus a CD for the source code for each of the above, making for a total of 6 CD's). Does the CD with commercial applications include any that are not normally available on the Net or at www. freshmeat.net or elsewhere? And are they demos, shareware or what? And is StarOffice 5.1 included? StarOffice 5.1 is included as a 30 day full-trial pending your registration. Don't know if registration is free or not as my trial isn't up yet. -Josh Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
